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CREAGH, Maj Gen Sir Michael O'Moore (1892-1970)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Creagh

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: CREAGH, Maj Gen Sir Michael O'Moore (1892-1970)

Date(s): 1940-1970

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Creagh | Sir | Michael O'Moore | 1892-1970 | Knight | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1892; educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 7 Queen's Own Hussars, 1911; Lt, 1913; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Aide de Camp to Div Commander, Home Forces, 1914-1915; Staff Capt, France, 1917-1918; Capt, 1918; Bde Maj, France, 1918-1919; General Staff Officer 3, British Army of the Rhine, 1919; Adjutant, 7 Queen's Own Hussars, 1919-1922; Maj, 15/19 The King's Royal Hussars, 1924; Bde Maj, Southern Command, 1927-1929; General Staff Officer 2, War Office, 1929-1931; Brevet Lt Col, 1931; Lt Col, 1934; Commanding Officer, 15/19 The King's Royal Hussars, 1934-1938; Col, 1938; General Staff Officer 1, Senior Officers' School, Sheerness, Kent, 1938-1939; Inspector, Royal Armoured Corps, War Office, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; acting Maj Gen, 1939-1940; General Officer Commanding 7 Armoured Div, Western Desert, 1939-1941; temporary Maj Gen, 1940-1941; Maj Gen, 1941; created KBE, 1941; commanded 3 Armoured Group, 1941-1942; commanded Hampshire and Dorset District, 1942; retired 1944; UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), 1944-1946; Deputy Chief of Mission to Greece; Chief of Emergency Supply Unit, European Regional Office; Chief of European Regional Office Voluntary Society Liaison Unit.died 1970.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to operations in the Western Desert, 1940-1941, especially Battles of Sidi Saleh, Beda Fomm and Operation BATTLEAXE, the attempt to relieve Tobruk, including typescript report by Lt Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor on operations of 7 Armoured Div, Mechili, Cyrenaica, Libya, Feb 1941; typescript text of lecture by Creagh entitled 'Operations of the 7th Armoured Division in the Western Desert from June 1940 to March 1941' [1942]; typescript reports by unit commanders and Staff Officers on operations during First Libyan campaign, 1940-1941, including Lt Gen Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Pierse, General Officer Commanding Western Desert Force, Lt Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, General Officer Commanding 13 Corps, Brig John Alan Lyde Caunter, commanding 4 Armoured Bde, Col George Edward Younghusband, 2 Armoured Div, Brig William Henry Ewart Gott, commanding Support Group, and Brig Hugh Edward Russell, commanding 7 Armoured Bde; typescript report by Creagh entitled 'The 7th Armoured Division', with five printed maps of North Africa, Nov 1943. Correspondence, 1942-1970, notably including letters from Lt Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, Commander Royal Armoured Corps, 1942, and Lt Gen Sir Richard (Alan) Fyffe, Col Commandant, 3 Bn, The Royal Green Jackets, 1970.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The papers of Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor include papers relating to Creagh, 1940-1941, and correspondence, dated 1940-1941 and 1944, mostly relating to the First Libyan Campaign, Western Desert, (Ref: O'Connor 4/1, 4/2 and 5); obituaries of Creagh from The Times and The Daily Telegraph, 1970 (Ref: O'Connor 11/19). The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include typescript notes by Creagh entitled 'Operations of the 7th Armoured Division in the Western Desert from June 1940 to March 1941' (Ref: LH 9/28/80).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: KBE, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armoured warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Maps | Visual materials
Operation Battleaxe (1941) | Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Caunter | John Alan Lyde | 1889-1981 | Brigadier
Creagh | Sir | Michael O'Moore | 1892-1970 | Knight | Major General
Fyffe | Sir | Richard Alan | 1912-1972 | Knight | Lieutenant General
Gott | William Henry Ewart | 1897-1942 | Lieutenant General
Martel | Sir | Giffard Le Quesne | 1889-1958 | Knight | Lieutenant General
O'Connor | Sir | Richard Nugent | 1889-1981 | Knight | General
Pierse | Sir | Noel Monson de la Poer | Beresford- | 1887-1953 | Knight | Lieutenant General x Beresford-Pierse | Sir | Noel Monson de la Poer
Russell | Hugh Edward | fl 1940-1941 | Brigadier
Younghusband | George Edward | fl 1940-1941 | Colonel

Corporate names

Places
Beda Fomm | Cyrenaica | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Egypt | North Africa
Mechili | Cyrenaica | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Sidi Saleh | Cyrenaica | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Tobruk | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Western Desert | North Africa
Libya x Libyan Arab Jamahiriya